hamlet, the pool guy

It’s not that Fox dreamed up a reality show about making porn stars act. It’s that they somehow convinced a theatre in London’s West End to take part. That, I do not understand.

we now resume

Going to pick up my sugar right now!

high high high tech fx

What in the world are these guys doing? Ahhhh. Filming the church across the street with one of the real fountains in the foreground couldn’t be done. I’m guessing the trees were in the way or the angle on the traffic was awkward. Or they didn’t want to drag the camera all the way up [...]

you don’ need no steenkeeng computorz

In an effort to save everyone time and a lot of needless research the RIAA will now sue you for downloading music even if you don’t have a computer. True story. Question: do the artists represented by the RIAA receive a share of damages awarded in these lawsuits? Because we’re talking millions upon millions of [...]

caveman level rising

Said out loud (by me) to an empty room: “I’m eating meat and I’m not wearing any pants.” Maigen gets home Wednesday. Not a moment too soon.

jog mob

More than fifty thousand people are running past my window.

one of them

Good to see I’m not the only one.

speechless

Sen. Ted Kennedy: [it's time to think about how we're going to bring our troops home from Iraq. The enormous presence of American forces in Iraq has been a crutch for them.] Jon Stewart: “But if you break someone’s leg shouldn’t you have to be their crutch for a while?” Sen. Ted Kennedy: “…”

scared me

Among the scariest experiences I’ve ever had was a video game called Silent Hill for the PS2. No, really. For real scared. Scarier than seeing Friday the 13th when I was ten or eleven. Scarier than facing down a cougar (the furry kind, not the leopard print kind) in the dark. Scarier than… well, it [...]

100 interesting things

Lifted from ibzi.net and posted at digg.com: (and no, I don’t know what happened to #18) 1/ The speed of light is generally rounded down to 186,000 miles per second. In exact terms it is 299,792,458 m/s (metres per second – that is equal to 186,287.49 miles per second). 2/ It takes 8 minutes 17 [...]